Inland or outland???

[linus00]

I am trying to decide if I want to apply inland or outland after some recent advice and research, and was just looking for some more input.

Here is some background
I am a united states citizen and my husband is a canadian citizen, after being long distance and visiting eachother back and forth, for a year or so we decided to get married in June, at the end of june I decided to move to canada with him (finding out later you dont have the right to just take all your crap and move there) so almost all of my belongings are in a storage place in the us and I no longer have a us address. So I am staying in Montreal as a "visitor", I would like to work as soon as possible and thats why I was considering inland because most people receive their open work permits within four months even though it could take up to 2 years to become a permanent resident and on the other hand outland seems better because the process would be much faster but I wouldnt be able to support myself or bring in any income, if anyone has any insight or would like to share their experience it would be awesome especially if you are applying to live in quebec!

 

[Ponga]

Are you also willing to stay in Canada for the entire process if you apply Inland?

If you no longer have any ties back `home' and you and your husband decide to take a short vacation outside of Canada...there's a chance that you could be denied re-entry (especially if you can't satisfy the CBSA officer's concerns that you are in fact `living' in Canada). If you're denied re-entry, your Inland application will be toast...and, you could even be hit with an Exclusion Order, banning you from returning to Canada for at least 1 year. Ok, this is a worse case scenario, but a very real possibility. You can educate yourself on `Dual Intent' (available on the CIC website), but without being able to show ties back home, you'd probably have a tough argument with CBSA on this.


Have you considered working remotely for a company/individual that is NOT in Canada? Working remotely via the internet, or telephone, is a great way for someone in your position to still apply Outland, while bringing in a bit of money while they await their PR approval. As long as you are remunerated outside of Canada, you don't need a work permit.

If working in Canada really is the most important thing to you right now, then...I guess the Inland application and OWP is worth considering.

Good luck!

 

[Aquakitty]

I am trying to decide if I want to apply inland or outland after some recent advice and research, and was just looking for some more input.

Here is some background
I am a united states citizen and my husband is a canadian citizen, after being long distance and visiting eachother back and forth, for a year or so we decided to get married in June, at the end of june I decided to move to canada with him (finding out later you dont have the right to just take all your crap and move there) so almost all of my belongings are in a storage place in the us and I no longer have a us address. So I am staying in Montreal as a "visitor", I would like to work as soon as possible and thats why I was considering inland because most people receive their open work permits within four months even though it could take up to 2 years to become a permanent resident and on the other hand outland seems better because the process would be much faster but I wouldnt be able to support myself or bring in any income, if anyone has any insight or would like to share their experience it would be awesome especially if you are applying to live in quebec!

It's generally recommended here for US citizens to apply outland, but there is no guarantee how fast it will go. However lots of people do have their outland sponsorship processed very fast, my husband is American and he got his full PR in 3 months, 21 days. This is really fast though, no guarantee it will go that fast but it does show that it is possible.

Being a US citizen though there are lots of remote jobs you could do, even if you had to cross the border for work once in a while that wouldn't be a big deal with outland sponsorship.